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The death of the mainframe has been talked about on and off for at least 30 years. But although such doom-mongering had subsided somewhat over recent times, IBM, the only surviving mainframe manufacturer, has lately found it being ignited once again. Second quarter revenues, which were announced in July, plummeted
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SonicWall today reaffirmed India’s role as a strategic growth and innovation hub as Patrick O’Donnell, Chief Revenue Officer, SonicWall, visits the country to meet with customers, partners, industry stakeholders and media. “India is one of SonicWall’s fastest growing and most important markets in the APJ region, Rapid
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public sector French SI still crying foul over shared services contract, alleges bid was 42% under DWP's own cost model System integrator Sopra Steria is set to have its day in court to contest a £370 million contract awarded by the UK government to Capita to run shared
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Am I surprised that Reacher season 4 isn't just dominating Prime Video, but the internet itself? No. Am I surprised that fan opinions feel more contradictory than ever? Absolutely. In case you've not caught up yet, new episodes are following Reacher (Alan Ritchson) as he becomes
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* Watch UCI Mountain Bike World Championships 2026 free on YouTube (select countries) * Unlock your stream with Surfshark (save up to 85%) * UCI Mountain Bike World Championships: Wed, Aug 26 – Sun, Aug 30 Watch UCI Mountain Bike World Championships 2026 live streams, as Tom Pidcock, Valentina Höll and Mathieu van der
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Check Point has identified and blocked a large-scale email phishing campaign using fraudulent financial hardship and debt-relief offers to manipulate recipients into calling attacker-controlled phone numbers. Over the past 14 days, Check Point observed approximately 24,700 emails associated with the campaign targeting users across more than 9,000 organizations,
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Japan is studying whether to move the settlement of stocks and government bonds onto blockchain infrastructure capable of running in real time around the clock, according to Nikkei, in a project involving the Financial Services Agency, the Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Japan, and the country’s three largest
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Revolut is launching a euro-backed stablecoin, entering a market that European regulation has spent two years accidentally consolidating around a single American issuer. The neobank is also one of the 36 firms the ECB picked for its digital euro pilot, which means it is now building the private euro token
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TL;DR Healthcare generates more data than clinicians can process, and adding AI tools risks making it worse. Over 70% of healthcare professionals say technology is being deployed faster than it can be operationalized. Doug Benoit argues AI should filter rather than flood, protect clinical attention rather than compete for
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TL;DR Large software companies routinely build internal tools that prove valuable, then let them decay when priorities shift. Robert Brownstein proposes “independent project franchising”: letting the engineers closest to a validated internal tool spin it out as an autonomous venture, with the parent company as first customer and licensing
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Spain has drafted a decree that would require new data centres to source at least 80% of their electricity from renewables in every hour of operation, with loss of grid connection as the penalty for failing to comply. It is a markedly firmer position than the one Brussels has taken,
